Bureaucratic Systems." Pp. 55-68 in R. D. Biggs and M. Gibson, eds., The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. [Pp. 45-58 in 2nd ed. of 1991]

"Mental Maps and Ideology: Observations on Subartu." Pp. 129-156 in H. Weiss, ed., The Origins of Cities in Dry-Farming Syria and Mesopotamia in the Third Millennium B. C. Four Quarters: Guilford, 1988.

"Divine Heroes and Historical Self-Representation: From Gilgamesh to Shulgi," Bulletin of the Society of Mesopotamian Studies 16 (1988) 19-23.

"The Drinking Gods: Alcohol in Early Mesopotamian Ritual and Mythology." Pp. 27-44 in Lucio Milano, ed., Drinking in Ancient Societies: History and Culture of Drinks in the Ancient Near East. Padua: Sargon, 1994.

"Sailing to Babylon, Reading the Dark Side of the Moon." Pp. 177-94 in Jerrold Cooper and Glenn M. Schwartz, eds., The Study of the Ancient Near East in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the Albright Centennial Symposium. Winona Lake: Eisnebrauns, 1996.

"Literature as a Source of Lexical Inspiration: Some Notes on a Hymn to the Goddess Inana." Pp. 65-74 in Jan Braun, et al., eds., Written on Clay and Stone; Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Krystyna Szarzynska. Warsaw: Agade, 1998.

"The Unbearable Lightness of Enlil" Pp. 237-247 in J. Prosecký, ed., Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East - Papers Presented at the 43rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale Prague, July 1-5, 1996. Prague: Oriental Institute, 1998.

"Sumer Dreams of Subir: Politics and the Geographical Imagination." Pp. 305-316 in K. van Lerberghe and G. Voet, eds., At the Crossroads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm. Leuven: Peeters, 1999.

“Round About Nidaba: On the Early Goddesses of Sumer.” Pp.413-422 in Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriolgique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001. Edited by S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting.

“The Earliest Scholastic Tradition.” Pp. 450-456 in Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. Exhibit catalog, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Ur III Period/Old Babylonian Period.”Pp. 466-478 in Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. Exhibit catalog, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"The Lives of the Sumerian Language," pp. 157-82 in Seth Sanders, ed., Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture: New Approaches to Writing and Reading in the Ancient Near East. Papers from the Symposium held February 25-26, 2005. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2006.

"The Cyrus Cylinder," "Royal Letters of the Ur III Kings," "The Sumerian King List," "The Tumal Chronicle," in Mark Chavalas, ed., The Ancient Near East.Blackwell's Sourcebooks in Ancient History, Blackwells, 2006.

"Love or Death? Observations on the Role of the Gala in Ur III Ceremonial Life," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 58 (2006) 49-61.

"The Mortal Kings of Ur: A Short Century of Divine Rule in Ancient Mesopotamia." Pp. 33-45 in N. Brisch, ed., Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond. Chicago: The Oriental Institute.
"Observations on 'Elamites' and 'Elam' in Ur III Times." In P. Michalowski, ed., On Ur III Times: Studies in Honor of Marcel Sigrist. Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplementary Series 2008.

“Sumerian.” Pp. 6-46 in Roger D. Woodard, ed., The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (revised version of 2004 article).
"Assur during the Ur III Period." Pp. 149-157 in Here and There Across the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of Krystyna Lyczkowska, ed. by Olga Drewnowska-Rymarz Warszawa: Agade, 2009.
"Masters of the Four Corners of the Universe: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings." Pp. 147-68 in K. Raaflaub and R. Talbert, eds., Geography, Ethnography, and Perspectives of the World from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Oxford: Blackwells, 2010.
"Maybe Epic: The Origins and Reception of Sumerian Heroic Poetry." Pp. 7-25 in D. Konstans and K. Raaflaub, eds., Epic and History. Oxford: Blackwells.
"Sound of Silence: Music in Mesopotamian Schooling." Pp. 199-239 in R. Pruzsinszky and D. Shehata, eds., Musiker und ihre Rolle bei der Verschlichtigung und Tradierung von literarischen Werken. Vienna: 2010.

"William Hallo and Assyriological, Biblical and Jewish Studies.Pp. xxiii-xxxii in William W. Hallo, The World’s Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres.Leiden: Brill. 2010.
"Traveler’s Tales." Pp. 117-14 in ICONEA 2008. Proceedings of the International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology held at the British Museum December 4, 5 and 6, 2008, ed. R. Dumbrill and I. Finkel. London: ICONEA Publications, 2010.

“The Mid-Late Third Millennium on the Deh Luran Plain” (with Henry Wright).Pp. 106-109 in Elamite and Achaemenid Settlement on the Deh Luran Plain: Towns and Villages of the Early Empires in Southwestern Iran, ed. Henry T. Wright and James A. Neely, with a preface by Frank Hole and contributions by Elizabeth Carter, Piotr Michalowski, Pierre de Miroschedji, James A. Neely, and Henry Wright. Memoirs, no. 47. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. 2010.

"Where’s Al? Language, Humor and Poetics in the Hymn to the Hoe.” Pp. 195-200 in Alexandra Kleinerman and Jack M. Sasson, eds., Why Should Someone Who Knows Something Conceal It? Cuneiform Studies in Honor of David I. Owen on His 70th Birthday.Bethesda: CDL. 2010.

J. Klein, Three Šulgi Hymns. Sumerian Royal Hymns Glorifying King Šulgi of Ur (Ramat-Gan, 1981) and idem, The Royal Hymns of Shulgi King of Ur: Man's Quest for Immortal Fame (Philadelphia, 1981). Journal of the American Oriental Society 106 (1986) 839-840.

King Nabonidus, Babylonian Politics, Royal Philology, and the Darkened Moon. Warburg Institute, London, March 1, 2002.

Masters of the Four Corners of the Universe: Views of the Universe inEarly Mesopotamian Writings.Geography, Ethnography, and Perspectives of the World in Ancient Civilizations: A Cross disciplinary Conference at Brown University.March 17, 2006.

Harmony of the Sumerian Spheres: The Music of Ancient Mesopotamia.W. G.

Albright Lecture, The Johns Hopkins University, April 26, 2006.

Plunder Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: The Cuneiformist Dilemma [Panel on Academic Responsibility, Publishing and the Scholarly use of Materials without Provenance, ASOR San Antonio, Nov.18, 2004.

On The Margins Of Poetics: The Cyclical Birth And Survival Of Early Mesopotamian Literature, University of Groningen, July 14th , 2006.

The Study of "Law" and "Legal" Phraseology in Old Babylonian Schooling, 53nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Münster, July 19, 2006.

Survey of Mesopotamian History, Mesopotamian Literature and Myth, topical seminars on Ebla and Syria in the Third Millennium, Mari and the Near East in the Second Millennium, myth in the Ancient Near East and the general study of myth, Mesopotamian history, historiography, “law” and legal texts, Mesopotamian magical texts and the general study of magic, Mesopotamian literature and the theory of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, literacy, nomadism and ethnic identity. Beginning Sumerian and courses on all genres of Sumerian writing, Beginning Akkadian and courses on various Akkadian textual genres, seminars on history and literature (Comp. Lit. Program) and literary theory and non-western writings (Comp. Lit. Program), self-representations of cultural elites in pre-modern societies (Humanities Inst), Peoples of the Middle East.